First documented work. Three years. Early exposure to physical logistics, route optimisation, and the economics of last-mile delivery — a problem that became a $100B+ market two decades later. Pattern recognition starts here.

Sump maintenance in underground coal mining. Exposure to industrial systems operating under extreme constraint — where failure has physical consequences. Understanding that systems break in predictable ways at predictable points.

Warhammer is not a game about painting miniatures. It is a system of rules, asymmetric resource allocation, constraint-based strategy, and repeated decision-making under pressure. Two years developing the systems thinking that later became the 6 Lenses. The pattern was already operating — it just didn't have a name yet.

First year completed. Astrophysics: you cannot move the stars — you study systems exactly as they are, running experiments on what already exists. Engineering: bringing things into reality and optimising them. President of the Macquarie University Engineering Student Society (MESS), 2013–2014. Mentor, Macquarie University Mentors, 2012–2014. The observation that shaped the thesis: true engineers always end up in finance or management — every root cause traces back there. That became a founding signal.

Direct retail travel sales. Understanding of how consumers make high-stakes purchasing decisions under uncertainty, and how distribution channels create or destroy margin. First exposure to the structural dynamics of the travel industry that later became the current employment context.

Corporate travel at scale. Egencia generating $7.95B in 2018. C-suite selling, cold calling, market development. Then Business Development Manager at Expedia TAAP — managing the travel agent affiliate program. Built the enterprise sales intelligence and distribution understanding that informed later thinking about channel power and trust layers as structural wedges.

Key account management at one of the world's largest corporate travel companies. Operating inside an $8.6B institution built the muscle for identifying where friction accumulates invisibly inside large systems — and what it takes to move a relationship that has structural inertia. The pattern recognition for institutional inefficiency sharpened here.

Led product management across four practice areas at Ernst & Young. The highest-credential institutional role in the career. Direct exposure to how professional services firms productise expertise, where the actual value sits versus where it is claimed to sit, and what happens when institutional complexity outpaces institutional judgment. Ended in redundancy — November 2023. The redundancy was the catalyst, not a setback.

After EY: approximately a year of redundancy. Then Van Pickup Driver at Australia Post, July 2024 – April 2025. During this period: ADHD diagnosis. This is the single most important event in the pre-Kallor history. The diagnosis did not create the pattern-recognition, the cross-domain linking, or the compulsion to see structure where others see noise — it explained it. Every unusual connection, every idea that wouldn't stop, every moment of thinking differently to everyone in the room — it was always there. The medication brought it under control. The recognition brought it into service. The van was the interlude. The diagnosis was the permission to build without apology.

An article from his mother-in-law about small businesses closing due to cashflow from unpaid invoices. At the start of the redundancy, tried to build something around this signal but couldn't articulate it. The inability to articulate — not the idea — was the real founding problem. The system that eventually became Kallor was built to solve exactly that: turning a raw observation into something structured, testable, and fundable.

Partner Solutions Group. Full-time, on-site, Sydney. The role Kallor is being built to replace. The 40% consulting ceiling exists because of this constraint — workshops and Kallor engagements replace this income while the capital machine compounds. Also: shot photography at TEDx. Astrophotography. Coach, player, and videographer for Sydney Uni Lions American football team. The system thinker operating across multiple domains simultaneously — always has been.